Quotes about Perseverance

I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.

So how do we go from stumbling to standing? The answers will vary according to where and how we fail, but the source will always remain the same: God and His precepts of life. That's why you must be in the Word of God on a consistent basis . . . You have to determine to take advantage of what God has made available. Kay Arthur, As Silver Refined

faith unchallenged ordinarily remains unchanged.

so that you won't become lazy, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance. Hebrews 6:12

Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3—4

Every time God delivers us, the point is ultimately to draw us closer to Himself. Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. Job 23:10

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had.

If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9

Our Promised Lands are characterized by the presence of victory, not the absence of opposition.

God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.